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UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

OSCAR H. OOUMBE, OF TVASHINGTON, D. 0., AND ROBERT R. ROBERTS, OF NEWORLEANS, LA., ASSIGNORS, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF ONE-HALF TOM. J. VINE, OF WASHINGTON, D. O.

SUBSTITUTE FOR BUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 266,777, dated October31, 1882.

Application filed May 13, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, OSCAR H. COUMBE, of Washington city, in theDistrict of Columbia, and ROBERT It. ROBERTS, of New Orleans, Louisiana,have invented an Improved Article of Commerce, which we call Butteroid,and of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Take of crude or refined cotton-seed oil, or any other suitablevegetable oil (preferably the former,) say, about twenty gallons, andheat it to 90 Fahrenheit (more or less) by means of steam-coils, andthen add slowly about one gallon of caustic soda at about 40 barometerwhile the whole is being violently agitated. With specially-heavy oilsit is not necessary sometimes to add more than half a gallon of thecaustic soda to bring the oil to a light straw-color. The mixture isthen allowed to settle and the supernatant oil is separated bydeeantation. About seventy-five parts of the oil thus prepared is thenemulsified with about twenty parts ofcorn-stareh, or any other wholesomefarinaoeous flour; but we prefer the corn-- starch, the same havingfirst been thoroughly cooked in salt and water of the strength of fivepartsofsalttotwentypartsofwater. Thorough incorporation can beaccomplished in a large mortar with heavy pestle, worked by any well- 0known power. The coloring material should be added before working in themortar. After having been thus prepared, the whole mass (No specimens.)

should be transferred to a suitable churn and churned in the usualmanner. Then place it in a suitable vessel and work the oil-milk 5thoroughly out of the mass and add the flavoring, preferably using sixdrops of butyrie ether to the gallon, and the mass becomes what we termbutteroid a mostexcellent and wholesome vegetable substitute for butter.

Having thus explained our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. An improved article of commerce knownas butteroid, and consisting of cotton-seed 5 or other vegetable oiltreated with a solution of caustic soda, in combination with tarinaceoustlour first thoroughly cooked in saltwater, substantially as hereindescribed.

2. The process herein described for the pro- 0 duction of butteroid,which consistsin raising vegetable oil to a temperature of about 90Fahrenheit, and slowly adding a cold solution of caustic soda, thenadding farinaceous flour first thoroughly cooked in salt and water andcompletely incorporating the mass, and then working out the oil-milk,and lastly coloring and flavoring, substantially asherein described, andin the proportions named.

OSCAR H. OOUMBE. ROBERT R. ROBERTS.

Witnesses:

H. B. APPLEWHAITE, E. J. BEDMOND.

